12. A thought from Robert Frost: https://twitter.com/noahmccormack/status/609208684586135552 …
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13. Boredom is never all encompassing, it is always punctuated by outbursts of violence just to remind us we're alive (i.e hockey).
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14. Countering me
@EricKleefeld says many Canadian politicians have been interestingly insane, like William Lyon Mackenzie King. Yes & no.6 replies 2 retweets 4 likes -
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15. True, in private WLM King was batty (held seances, talked to dead mom & his living dogs) but in public he was staid & sober: boring.
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16. The King example is proof that Canadian boringness isn't intrinsic: it's something we work at, cherish and reward.
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17. There's an entire cultural infrastructure to reward oatmeal novels ("angst on the farm" as Russell Smith described it).
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Adam
18. Irvine Welsh weights in, saying the Scots have exported their boring people to Canada:https://twitter.com/AlphaInvictus/status/609213142913028096 …
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19. (Should have said this before but everything here is only true of English Canada which has never assimilated Quebec into its boringness)
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20. This is very much worth pondering:https://twitter.com/RobinMazumder/status/609215271312592896 …
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21. The constructed mask of boringness is also the mask of whiteness.
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22. One version of Canadian history (see Conrad Black) presents country as being much whiter than it is, excluding First Nations, etc.
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